The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volumen1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... .. 9. Another 72 73 74 75 76 ib . 78 79 ... ib . ... 81 82 83 10. The Grasshopper 11. The Swallow Elegy upon Anacreon , who was choaked by a grape - stone ... VERSES WRITTEN ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS . Christ's Passion , taken CONTENTS .
... .. 9. Another 72 73 74 75 76 ib . 78 79 ... ib . ... 81 82 83 10. The Grasshopper 11. The Swallow Elegy upon Anacreon , who was choaked by a grape - stone ... VERSES WRITTEN ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS . Christ's Passion , taken CONTENTS .
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In Prose and Verse Abraham Cowley Richard Hurd. VERSES WRITTEN ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS . Christ's Passion , taken out of a Greek Ode , written by Mr. Masters , of New College , in Oxford .... Ode on Orinda's Poems Page 91 94 Ode upon ...
In Prose and Verse Abraham Cowley Richard Hurd. VERSES WRITTEN ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS . Christ's Passion , taken out of a Greek Ode , written by Mr. Masters , of New College , in Oxford .... Ode on Orinda's Poems Page 91 94 Ode upon ...
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... written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have de- servedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of elo- quence , has produced a funeral ...
... written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have de- servedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of elo- quence , has produced a funeral ...
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... written when he was ten years old ; and “ Con- · stantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was * This is a mistake , as Cowley was at that ...
... written when he was ten years old ; and “ Con- · stantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was * This is a mistake , as Cowley was at that ...
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... written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two ...
... written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two ...
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Æneid Anacreon beauteous beauty birds play blessings blest breast bright CATULLUS colours Cowley Cowley's curse Davideis death delight didst divine Donne dost thou doth drink e'er earth ev'n fair fame fancy fantastick fate fire flame ganon gentle glory gold Gondibert grow hand happy hast heart heaven honour images Ismenus join'd KATHARINE PHILIPS king labour land land arts learned Lesbos less light live Lord lord Falkland lover metaphysical poets methinks mighty mind mistress Muse Nature ne'er never night noble numbers o'er once Orinda Pindar poem poesy poet poetical poetry praise Prince rage reign rich sacred sad cypress Sappho shew shine sing soul spirit Sprat stars sure thee thine things thou dost thought truth verse virtue Whilst WILLIAM DAVENANT wind wine wise wonders write
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Página ii - ... relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and, perhaps, sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is com.monly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Página 167 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página lii - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Página xxviii - ... a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together...
Página 61 - If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embassies, and spies, The frowns, and smiles, and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuries (Numberless, nameless, mysteries...
Página 28 - Women love't, either in Love or Dress. A thousand different shapes it bears, Comely in thousand shapes appears. Yonder we saw it plain ; and here 'tis now, Like Spirits in a Place, we know not How.
Página 166 - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore ; What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others...
Página lxxxix - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página lxxx - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red; An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
Página 81 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he, and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy ; Nor does thy luxury destroy.